Req #13756 [Csd]: exponential ** operator

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13756&edit=1 ID: 13756 Updated by: nikic@php.net Reported by: sander@php.net Summary: exponential ** operator Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues Operating System: n/a PHP Version: 4.0.6 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: nikic Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: @tom Exponentiation is an operation that is used too little (in PHP) to warrant adding an extra operator for it. Doing a random guess, I'd think it's used even less than the bitwise operators (and those are used quite rarely in PHP...) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-28 11:17:23] tom at r dot je Indeed! Seems very despotic just to say "No. Deal with it" with no further discussion or explanation why. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-07-08 23:31:23] hello at wesalvaro dot com le why not? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-27 16:17:03] jimw@php.net not going to happen. just suck it up and use pow(). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-19 18:51:47] jeroen@php.net I proposed that earlier (along with ^^) [ZendEnginge ML, june 27th & july 3rd]. Anyway, I think it should be added, there is simply no power operator now, and pow() is both a bit bugly and overloaded (both ^^ and ** at the same time). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-19 11:24:28] hholzgra@php.net ** is Pascal, not C ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13756 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13756&edit=1